- 08 Jul 201324View
Scratching
My leg itches at night.
My fingers sprout nails
To probe beneath
Down to lower - 11 Jul 201326View
The Scream
Gurgling in high-chair,
Bashing a plastic spoon,
She displays her two teeth
When she - 21 Aug 20132View
Treatment
Probing, scraping, scratching,
Each delicate twitch
A scything sweep.Clattering mirror,
- 21 Aug 20133View
Winter in Munich
I
Whenever sleep is required, But resisted,
The baby is bundled
And pushed - 25 Aug 20133View
Alpendohlen – Wendelstein
These birds choose to live in rarefied air,
Where all around them mountain peaks
Can be - 03 Sep 201343View
"Red Never Seems to Dry Completely"
(What the artist told me)
She paints like an otter swims:
Instinct, bold and lithe, guides - 05 Sep 20132View
Kuwait
(For Chris Booth)
A pressed down
Heat exhausted stagger
Through furnace-fierce oppression. - 13 Sep 20134View
A Lion Lives With Me
Normally he sleeps,
Under my desk,
Or in the wardrobe,
Or under the kitchen table.
There are - 03 Nov 20132View
Overnight Snow
Spring burned in that fire
Behind the evening trees.All day it bled the ice
Back into lake and - 29 Nov 20134View
I watch for Demons
My eyes along the tree line fall,
It is no idle pastime though;
No pleasant thoughts do I - 30 Nov 20132View
A Fable
Burdened eternally with living
In a myth,
He pulls behind his thin
And bent bodyA huge
- 08 Dec 20132View
NBH
Playful stones thrown
By small children
Bounce harmlessly
Off our backs.Now bullets
- 22 Dec 20132View
Der Grund
Wheeled wailing down white
Walled corridors with neon
Strip lights and antiseptic smellsThe
- 22 Dec 20133View
Two Babies
She throws the cup
From the high chair
Again and again,For the thrill of the noise,
And - 08 Jan 201444View
Satsuma
She's squeezed between
Lap and table
While I peel fruit.Eating it myself
Would provoke
A - 16 Aug 20142View
Intrusive Thoughts
There are thoughts that make you tremble,
Thoughts that you can't say,
Thoughts that never leave - 30 Aug 20141View
Struggling
After the darkness, struggling to make sense
Of what has gone and what is yet to be;
That feeling - 04 Nov 20141View
Horses Near Fort William
I walked alone that day
In shadow
Cast by mountains.Where a solitary tree
Stooped to greet
A - 30 Aug 20151View
Secret Garden, Northdown Park
Hidden corners open
Through a swinging gate
For bobbing pigtails,
Running around berried - 28 Oct 20152View
Refugee
I glimpse a graphite sea
Smudging a sky
Laden with menace.I have sought escape
From my - 10 Nov 20152View
Sunshine and Shadow, Madrid
Bright and warm
Rioja
Marisco y mixta
Streets crowded with noise,
Women who stare back,
My - 04 Jan 20162View
The Gusts
I. Loch Lubnaig
I saw it coming.
First the wave it made along the surface
I saw it - 20 Mar 20161View
The Gust - Loch Lubnaig
I saw it coming.
First the wave it made along the surface
I saw it running
Along the water of - 20 Mar 201621View
A Dream About Iraq
Deer are being culled,
Their bodies piled on heather,
Dumped on one another.
A new born fawn - 09 Sep 20162View
A Lion Lives With Me
Normally he sleeps,
Under my desk,
Or in the wardrobe,
Or under the kitchen table.There are
- 22 Mar 2018View
It's getting harder...
It's getting harder to remember
what I was like
before I was damaged;
before you tore me